Heart-Shaped Oven Mitts

After making this pattern, I think I might have to make more oven mitts! This was so simple to put together in a short morning sew and I had a lot of fun quilting the heart fabric. I forgot I had this fabric until I found it earlier in the week while I was looking for something else. I have a few pieces of it, but I think I originally got it in a bag at a thrift store for 50 cents or something? It was a good deal. I can't wait to think of more projects I can use this fabric in. The hearts look so cute quilted! With that being said, cotton fabric works best for this kind of project around heat. Similar with the batting - Insul-bright batting is best for projects you know will face high heat, like hot baking pans from the oven.

Materials:

• About 1/2 yard fabric for outside of oven mitt

• About 1/2 yard fabric for inside of oven mitt

• About 1/2 yard of batting (you can also stitch smaller pieces of batting together)

• Bias tape

• Clothes iron

• Basic sewing supplies (machine or needle, thread, scissors, etc.)

Instructions:

Start by making a stencil. The document I printed out to make mine is available though the link below.

Heart outline.docx

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Use your stencil to trace 2 hearts on the outer fabric, 2 hearts on the inner fabric, and two hearts on the batting. Cut out the hearts.

Place the batting on each piece of outer fabric facing the wrong side, and quilt the pieces together using any pattern you wish (can be straight lines, zigzag, etc.). I just followed the natural pattern of my fabric, with crisscross lines and hearts.

Once both pieces of outer fabric and batting have been quilted together, cut one of the hearts in half. Cut one of the inner fabric hearts in half too. Place the inner fabric halves against the outer fabric halves, wrong sides facing together. Baste the layers together (I used a spray, but a few loose stitches and an iron could also do the job).

Cut two 7-inch strips if your bias tape and sew onto the center sides of each half of heart (see picture for reference). Take a small piece of bias tape, form a loop, and sew to the front of the full quilted heart (see picture for reference).

Take one of your inside pieces of fabric (a whole heart) and place the two quilted heart halves over top of it (see picture). Clip or pin them down. Sew around the heart with 3/8 seam allowance.

Place the full heart piece onto the other full heart piece (right sides facing together) and clip or pin in place. Sew all the way around EXCEPT for a 3 - 4 inch hole left at the bottom. This hole will allow you to flip the project right-side out later.

Using the hole that you left in the bottom of the heart, flip everything right-side out so that the batting is inside the oven mitt. Iron everything down, then sew up the hole (tuck raw edges in) and a border around the whole heart (as close to the edge as you can sew).